Tag Archives: Election 2012

What we will see in the next four years is the monarchical government of a president determined to rule without Congress. He will not be able to pass any measures through the House, assuming our representatives will not become his useful idiots. He will therefore continue to rule by executive decree, as he has since […]

There’s a “viral” photo of Mitt Romney pumping gas and looking withered going about. I won’t link to it since every venue featuring it appears to be dumping all over him. The joke, alas, is on the rest of us. You have to understand: you won’t get a candidate as qualified as Mitt Romney next […]

I don’t watch “Modern Family”, or any broadcast tv for that matter, but I guess I understand just enough about it to get the allusion this Real Clear Politics writer, Reed Galen, uses to try and make his very banal and quite idiotic point about how the GOP needs to “change”. First he assures us that […]

–I won’t bother with providing context. You can click for yourself to see. Just savor for now the deliberate anarchic flow of the thing: Skipped. Apt though. The media just raped us and now helps us understand the thinking of the minds that do such things. I already know. Democrat. Socialist. Wanted something somebody else […]

If this gallery is the best the Republicans have to hope for in 2016, then kiss that election goodbye too. –I could almost wish, now, that Romney had picked Rubio for his running mate, tbe better to sink the horrible false hope that Republicans could carry Latinos if only they would better pander to them. […]

Hat tip to Ann Althouse: What do we know already? Lawrence Auster sums up the Benghazi story thus far: The president was aware in real time of an organized military assaulton our consulate and the nearby CIA annex in Benghazi. As the assault was proceeding, the president rejected the urgent requests of the personnel under […]

After staying up late watching the deliriously enjoyable Octopussy (does no one recognize how good it is? Roger Moore’s best!), I realized I’d sailed right through the time switchbackeroo and that really I needs must get some sleep. So I went to sleep and dreamt my dreams, and when I awoke from the last one I […]

I had to search high and low to find this piece I’d read and then “misplaced” on the internet. Damn internet, a terrible place to browse. From the National Journal on the divergences in the polls: The manifestation of these disagreements is evident in polling weights. Most Republican pollsters are using something close to a 2008 […]

My Electoral College prediction, based on Rasmussen and gut hopes. I’m calling New Hampshire for Mitt, though he can wing it without it. To win Wisconsin seems like too much, and Nevada seems slipping out of grasp. But the South and Colorado look good for Romney, and I think we’ll win Ohio, which is what […]

Oh, Lesley! h/t to Ann Althouse, who remembers the Sixties and meditates (not harshly, though there’s a gentle rebuke written between the lines) on Gore’s decision to put out this endorsement using her epochal hit (one she didn’t have writing credit on, though I believe she did write stuff later), wrapping its Girl Power from another […]

–I’m coming to this late: I was practicing Korean on my dry erase refrigerator board. Obama’s being a smartass again. I’m not really worried for Romney this time; my sense is he will win the election. The public isn’t terribly interested in foreign affairs, as long as they don’t know the kids who are getting […]

At 4:17 “No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation . . .” begins one sentence, picking up the thread of digressions on the sad anniversary that is September 11th. But he never specifies that the attack itself was an “act of terror”– he characterizes it as “senseless violence”, and pays homage to the […]

A couple of nights ago, I mentally bulleted reasons why Obama’s gonna be in trouble if he emulates Biden’s brusque-hysteric routine in the Vice-Presidential debate. Of course, liberals, ginned up by Biden’s obnoxious performance, and some conservatives unduly cowed by it, will claim that Obama’s gonna be on fire and take back the campaign with […]

I’ve always thought that, at a personal level, Joe Biden is affable enough a guy. But is he drunk tonight? Is he channelling the Joker? Martha Raddatz is weird in her own way: a hectoring, shrill voice. Bossy on one plane, but letting Biden raise hell on the other. Ryan himself is less impressive than Romney […]

General Electric legend Jack Welch responds to critics in a forcefully reasoned Wall Street Journal essay. In part: The Obama campaign and its supporters, including bigwigs like David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs, along with several cable TV anchors, would like you to believe that BLS data are handled like the gold in Fort Knox, with […]

Ah, that morning-after glow. Like Faye Dunaway with her Oscar by the pool. I must be living like an adreno-con or something. Feels kinda sexy. Here’s T-ara arriving recently in Malaysia, also soaking up the adulation afforded greatness: Where’s goddess Hyomin?! Ah, but there’s Soyeon, very shaded and superstar-like. Of course, she is a superstar; but T-ara […]

from Althouse commentariate alum vbspurs: You know, Joe Biden is very personable — he’s hard to hate, and not just because he acts and talks like a fool. He’s like a trainwreck, but with a caboose full of clowns, lions and trapeze artists. –Very true. I like old Joe. Though I hear he can really […]

and I don’t like people who do. What are you, six fricking years old? The word is “vegetables”. I wouldn’t let my children talk with their mouths full, and I wouldn’t let them use some puerile word like “veggies”. Nor, for that matter, would I feed them slop unfit for human consumption like filthy nasty […]

Ann Althouse’s legal linguist hat is really getting a warm workout these days. I think she may even vote for Romney. All the same, she’s offering excellent labor in the vineyards where Liberal Media grapes are pressed to yield their unwholesome blood-fruit of– oh hell, I’ll need a linguistic deconstruction myself if I carry on […]

Ann Althouse comments (this is a follow-up on the Israeli/Palestinian issue addressed in the taped Romney remarks): What do you think of the way Romney speaks in this video? Obviously, the damaging material will be picked out and exploited by his opponents. That’s the way the game is played. But some people might prefer “secret” […]

Scott Galupo attacks an Erick Erickson defense of Romney’s Libya comments: Here is Erickson on the subject: “Yesterday, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a man who swore an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States of America, called an American civilian to ask him to stop exercising his first amendment […]

The American Ambassador in Libya is brutally murdered, along with three attendants. Our foreign policy is ripe for severe criticism. American officials, including the President, make apologies for some obscure video production made by private American citizens. The Republican candidate for President, who, were he to win, will have to make the same snap judgments […]

In all this excitement I’d quite forgotten to post the Eastwood Republican National Convention presentation itself: So, do you feel like watching it again, punk? “Well, maybe one last time!” –The silvery suavity of that impromptu aside is so delightful: worthy of tingles up the thigh (well, for the lady in question, at least). Lawrence Auster […]

Althouse on the voice-vote override at the Democratic National Convention that put God and Jerusalem back on the platform: Moving beyond the superficial spectacle of Democrats kinda-sorta booing God, let’s look at the Democrats supposed dedication to counting all the votes and denial that we need to worry about voting fraud. This was out-and-proud vote […]

–it will soon be here! –“I’ve got one in mind!” I bet you do, Bill! [I’m going for subtext] –Burns America on the inside? –“I wanna do Michele Obama!” . . . The standard-bearer for 2012 . . . . Is Bill trying to teach Obama how to talk like a black preacher? “Middle class” […]

says Liv Ullmann in Terence Malick’s Days of Heaven II. Huh? HUH??? Has Barack Obama actually had a life? I mean, I know he had that kind of Clinton thing going with the stepfamilies and all. But after he started smoking pot, it seems like it was all gravy for him. And though he “community […]

–albeit a very undesirable, hectoring, masculine (in a wimpy sort of way) slut. What look is she channelling, Tina Fey goes clubbing at a retirement community rec room? I have to say, even conservative partisan flaks tend to look more presentable. God, she’s like thirty going on thirteen-hundred. And don’t feminists ever get tired of […]

Lawrence Auster picks up the Jodi Kantor New York Times piece on President Obama’s competitive arrogance, previously discussed by Steve Sailer. A reminder to take a look ourselves. The general picture isn’t new, but Kantor’s essay, Sailer suggests, may be an intentional “dogwhistle”. Is Kantor genuinely disturbed by Obama? From Kantor: Even some Democrats in […]

Lawrence Auster’s grim view of the Republican National Convention week wouldn’t have led me to expect such an efflorescence of his charming, though uncharacteristic, levity as we see here and here. That whole Clint Eastwood thing must’ve really awakened the Muse. –I knew he’d make up for the dreary Mystic River somehow, someday. Speaking of Clint, […]

Middle-lowbrow (and soon to be defunct) newsweeklie Newsweek runs a cover article from British historian and pundit Niall Ferguson on why Obama must be defeated. That Ferguson has such a view is no surprise; what does surprise is that Tina Brown chooses to run with it, indicating that Jimmy Carter ’80 fatigue has set in. Brown, a […]

The chutzpah. The Christian Science Monitor reports: Following Mitt Romney’s statement Thursday that he “never paid less than 13 percent” in income taxes, the Obama campaign is playing Let’s Make a Deal: Release five years of tax returns, and we’ll stop asking for more. –What on earth does the Obama campaign think it looks to […]

A daring move. More daring, obviously, than my tame Romney-Pawlenty notion. Choosing Ryan is seen as a committment: this will be a grownup ticket, and there’s no place for Ryan on it unless Romney wants to talk a lot about hard, gloomy truths about our debts. For all the sunny wholesomeness in their demeanor, Romney-Ryan […]

Yaaaaawwwnnn. So, here we are, and tomorrow morning we’re gonna know who Romney has picked. Four years ago the Palin pick astounded and thrilled me. I knew who she was. I had called this thing, to my mother, my history mentor, and, I believe, my brother. Did it work out well? Well, by god, Palin […]

I don’t know what Mitt Romney’s up to these days. That’s not a snarky pronouncement on the alleged inadequacies of his campaign, it’s just a simple statement of fact. I’m not enough of a daily political junkie to keep up with exactly what he’s doing. I do know, however, that Barack Obama is very intent […]

Romney is a maddening opponent because he hits hard, stays religiously on message and never, ever winks. While other candidates let reporters and political operatives in on the joke – that they don’t really believe the attacks they are launching – Romney stays straight-faced the whole time. It makes people crazy. Chris Stirewalt might be […]